Have writer's block? Hopefully this resource will help librarians identify publishing and presentation opportunities in library & information science, as well as other related fields. I will include calls for papers, presentations, participation, reviewers, and other relevant notices that I find on the web. If you find anything to be posted, please drop me a note. thanks -- Corey Seeman, University of Michigan(cseeman@umich.edu)

ASIST 2005 will focus on the diversity of perspectives and insights from all those participating in the information science and technology community, as they generate innovative ideas, define theoretical concepts or work out the nuts and bolts of imple¬men¬ting well-tested ideas in new ways and in new settings. A wide variety of plenary and invited speakers, moder¬ated panels, poster sessions and refereed papers will explore this theme.

Submissions by researchers and practitioners on any topic in information science and tech¬nology are solicited.

Deadlines
January 21, 2005 Proposals due for contributed papers, technical sessions and panels, and pre-conference sessions
February 25, 2005 Proposals due for contributed posters/short papers
March 31, 2005 Authors/proposers notified of acceptance
May 27, 2005 Final versions due for conference proceedings

Who can submit
Individuals, ASIST special interest groups (SIGs), or institutions may make any type of submission. Proposers are welcomed from any academic, nonprofit, corporate, or government area in any part of the world. Proposers need not be members of ASIST. ASIST SIG chairs are encouraged to help coordinate proposals from their members.

Where and how to submit
All submissions are made electronically via a link from the ASIST Web site (http://www.asis.org), coming by December 3, 2004. Details on acceptable file formats, citation style, and specific contact information required in the online submission form will be on the Web page during December.

The annual conference of the Ohio Valley Group of Technical Services Librarians, serving Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio, will be hosted by the CONSORT libraries at the Cherry Valley Lodge, Newark, Ohio, May 11-13, 2005.

The OVGTSL Conference Planning Committee invites proposals for presentations
* From all interested persons - librarians, paraprofessionals, library school students, and others.
* That explore the challenges to technical services and collection development to rethink, retool, and take risks in collaboration, workflow, and management. Possible areas include, but are not limited to:

* That can be presented within 45 minutes (e.g. 30 minute presentation, 15 minutes for discussion).

Proposals should include the following information for all presenters: Name, Affiliation, Work address, Telephone number, and Email. Please also include title, abstract (no more that 200 words) and equipment needs.

Proposals must be received by JANUARY 31, 2005, and sent by email (MS word format for attachments, please) to Margo Warner Curl at mcurl@wooster.edu. Please indicate OVGTSL SUBMISSION in subject line.

Thursday, November 25, 2004

This is a call for articles related to the topic of website and digital
project usability studies, for a special issue of OCLC Systems & Services:
International Digital Library Perspectives to be published in late 2005.
The editor is interested in any and all research, case studies, and
opinions related to the above topic. Proposals for articles should be sent
to the editor at the email address indicated below, no later than December
15, 2004. If proposal is accepted, articles would need to be written and
to the editor no later than May 1, 2005. If you have any questions, please
do not hesitate to contact me.

Monday, November 22, 2004

CFP: Open Call for Submissions on any aspect of children's literature or the study of children's literature
Conference Location: Rochester, NY
Conference Date: March 19, 2005
Deadline: December 15, 2004.

Off to See the Wizard: Quests for Memory and Culture in Children's Literature

Saturday, March 19, 2005
Monroe Community College
Rochester, NY

Keynote Speakers:
Roni Natov, co-founder of The Lion and the Unicorn, author of The Poetics of Childhood (2003) and Leon Garfield (1994), Professor of English, Brooklyn College

Linda Sue Park, winner of the 2002 Newberry Medal for A Single Shard (2001), author of Seesaw Girl (1999), The Kite Fighters (2000), When My Name was Keoko (2002)

Guest Speakers:
Russell Peck, John Hall Deane Professor of English at University at Rochester. Popular children's authors, Vivian Vande Velde, and Mary Jane and Herm Auch

We welcome abstracts on any aspect of children's literature, contemporary, classic, obscure or popular. Papers might focus on illustration, drama, poetry, the picture book, the historical novel, fantasy, science fiction, realism, fairy tales, Disney revisions of history and/or fairy tales, representations of gender, race or class, political activism or conservatism. We also welcome papers about the study of children's literature.

The study of historical and cultural aspects of readers and reading is a new but fast-growing area that overlaps with the history of the book and of print culture, and draws on the theories and methodologies of history, literary criticism, cultural studies, and sociology. But reading researchers have tended to overlook libraries as subject for study, thereby missing an important context in which reading commonly takes place. We are interested in research that explores the ways in which contemporary and historically situated groups and individuals encounter public, academic, school, special, private and other types of libraries. We anticipate examples of reader groups to be distinguished by their occupancy of a particular time period (including the present) as well as social, cultural and geographic place. They might include, for example, racial and ethnic minorities, immigrants, religious organizations, children, rural residents, interest group members or the GLBT community.

Submissions should conform to style conventions found in The Library Quarterly (see http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/LQ/instruct.html), not exceed 6,000 words (excluding endnotes), and be accompanied by a 100-word abstract. We encourage mailed submissions as an attachment in Word or pdf format.

The IASSIST Conference returns to UK in May 2005. The IASSIST conference venue usually follows a 4 year cycle of USA, Canada, USA and Europe. Edinburgh University Data Library hosted the conference in Edinburgh in 1993 and we are delighted to welcome IASSIST back in 2005.

This will be a joint conference between IASSIST, the International Association for Social Science Information Service & Technology, and IFDO, the International Federation of Data Organisations.

The IASSIST/IFDO 2005 conference theme is Evidence and Enlightenment. [for more information, follow the links above].

The Joint Conference on Digital Libraries is a premier international forum for all aspects of digital library research, development, and evaluation. We welcome researchers and practitioners with broad and diverse interests including: technical advances, usage and impact studies, policy analyses, social and institutional implications, theoretical contributions, interaction and design advances, and innovative applications in the sciences, humanities, and education.

The theme of JCDL2005 highlights the powerful role of digital libraries as cyberinfrastructure. The emerging global interest in the convergence of computation, information management, networking, and intelligent sensing is poised to transform the conduct of research and education. This cyberinfrastructure has the potential to engender the creation of powerful new tools, research methodologies, and processes that will enable scientists and learners to investigate the natural world, the social world, and the human-built environment in new and previously unimaginable ways.

It's time to start thinking ahead to ALA Midwinter in Boston. We are starting to plan for the Automated Acquisitions and In-process Control Discussion Group Meeting, which will be at the usual time on Sunday morning, January 16th from 9:30 to 11 am. Venue to be announced later.

At the annual meeting we talked about uses for vendor supplied in-process control records. Previous sessions have been devoted to various aspects of standards for acquisitions records, data migration issues, ONIX, and any number of other things. What are the issues you are wanting to discuss this winter?

I would prefer you to respond to the list so that we have the opportunity for a dialogue on the suggestions, but you may certainly respond directly to me if you wish to do so.

SHARP is the leading international scholarly association for historians of print culture, consisting of more than 1,200 book historians world-wide. Its focus is on "the creation, dissemination, and reception of script and print, including newspapers, periodicals and ephemera." Members work in a wide variety of different disciplines both inside and outside the academy. The annual conferences, which alternate between North America and Europe, are noted for their stimulating discussions, vibrant keynote addresses, and memorable activities.

The Halifax conference will be open to both individual papers, combined into sessions by the program committee, and to complete sessions organized and proposed by members. As is the SHARP custom, each paper will be twenty minutes in length, followed by discussion, and each session will be one hour and a half in duration.

Presenters must be members of SHARP (at least one author of each co-authored paper proposal must be a member) or must join SHARP at the time of submission of proposals. Further details about SHARP and membership can be found at the web address shown below. Papers on any aspect of book history and print culture may be proposed.

The conference theme "Navigating Texts and Contexts" suggests that examinationof the varieties of the relationship between texts and contexts would be welcome. In addition, because Halifax is located at one point of what a Canadian historian described as "The North Atlantic Triangle" (Britain, France and North America), papers on aspects of the book trade in that region would be appropriate.

SHARP makes available a small number of travel grants to graduate students and to independent scholars. If you wish to be considered for such a grant, please state this when submitting your proposal, along with a rationale for the request.

The Program and Poster Committees of the CHLA/ABSC Conference 2005 invite you to submit contributed papers or posters for the annual meeting in Toronto, Ontario, May 30-June 3, 2005. Papers may describe innovative programs/practices or new research findings and should relate to the overall conference theme - “The World Around the Corner”

Call for Contributed Papers
Like the advent of the World Wide Web, Google has profoundly changed the way libraries and their patrons approach information. For many in health care, Google and PubMed are not only their tools of choice, but often their only tools. The rise of these ubiquitous, sometimes powerful, and exceedingly simple services has touched every area of library operations from reference source selection, instruction, and interface development. How have and should libraries respond to the current challenges and opportunities that PubMed and Google afford? And how do we plan to out survive and outshine both?

Call for Posters
Poster sessions comprise visual presentations of information about research or other projects. They offer conference delegates a less formal alternative to contributed papers and plenary sessions, as well as an opportunity to interact directly with those responsible for the presentations.

Monday, November 15, 2004

ECCSSA Conference 2005 (Eastern Community College Social Science Association)
Location: Virginia, United States
Conference Date: APRIL 1-2, 2005
Call for Papers Deadline: February 15, 2005

Call for Papers & Proposals on "Advancing the Social Sciences in the Information Age: Change, Innovation, and Research."

The 31st Annual Conference of the Eastern Community College Social Science Association (ECCSSA) will be devoted to an exploration of the information age to gain a better understanding about the role of the social sciences in the transformation of information, how information is used and its impact; as well as, the cultural contexts and differences in use and need. This conference will investigate the transformations necessary in the social sciences, in teaching and learning, and in community college education. We are especially interested in research and innovative uses and models in teaching and learning. ECCSSA invites professionals interested in the topic to join us in dialogue and exploration. For a list of suggested themes and topics for papers and presentations, please visit the ECCSSA website at the web address given below.

SUGGESTED THEMES AND TOPICS FOR PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS (with a few library-related topics - go to the site for more ideas)

Digital Technology
-The Digital Divide: The Issue of Information Equity
-Assessing the Impact of Information and Technology on Conventional Instruction
-The Internet as a Teaching/Learning Tool
-Partnerships between Print Media and Internet
-Intellectual Property in the Information Age: A Classroom Guide to Copyright
-Technology Assessment

Media (Print, Commercial, Multimedia)

Research and Policy
-Supporting Research in the Social Sciences
-New Roles for Libraries & Librarians

Human Factors
-Character Building in the Information Age
-The Information Age and How It is Shaping Human History
-Interpretations of Information in an Age of Terrorism
-Information Overload
-Ethical Issues and Concerns

Innovations in Teaching, Classroom Strategies, and Student Learning
-Innovative uses of information technology in the classroom.
-The Internet as a Teaching/Learning Tool
-The Information Age and Self-Directed Learning
-Multimedia Classrooms
-Transforming the Role of Students and Teachers
The conference will be held on April 1-2, 2004, Northern Virginia Community College, Loudoun Campus, 1000 Harry Flood Byrd Highway, Sterling, VA 20164-8699.

Sunday, November 14, 2004

The Public Library Association (PLA) is a division of the American Library Association. PLA's core purpose is to strengthen public libraries and their contribution to the communities they serve and its mission is to enhance the development and effectiveness of public library staff and public library services.

The proposal process is completely electronic: only proposals submitted through this online process will be considered. You can access the online forms for preconference or program proposals by clicking the buttons at the bottom of the page. The online forms are self explanatory but it will be helpful for you to review the list of information items that you will need to provide on the proposal form. It is best to have as much information as possible before you begin entering your proposal. However, incomplete proposals can be saved and revised at any time until November 30. After this date, the online form will no longer be available for entering new proposals.

Program organizers will be notified of the status of his/her proposal beginning in February 2005.

The Steering Committee of the Joint Conference of Librarians of Color 2006 includes representatives from the American Indian Library Association (AILA), the Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association (APALA), the Black Caucus of the American Library Association (BCALA), the Chinese American Librarians Association (CALA), and REFORMA, the National Association to Promote Library and Information Services to Latinos and the Spanish Speaking.

The JCLC ’06 “Gathering at the Waters” conference will include a one-day pre-conference and four days of tracked programming, encompassing-issues programs and individual and combined celebratory events. It is also a conference directed towards diversity within library and information studies and the research and development aspects of community outreach. It will establish a forum for the exchange of ideas and dissemination of information on both new and existing ideas.

JCLC ’06 seeks the best ideas in providing library services on the topics below and invites proposal submissions for contributed papers, panel sessions, workshops, poster sessions, and roundtable discussions. This conference will feature speakers from academia, public, school, private industry and government agencies.

The Acquisitions Editor is charged with developing topics for LITA Guides and Monographs, soliciting suggested publications from LITA members and others, interacting with authors to produce the publications in manuscript format, and coordinating the editorial review of manuscripts by members of the LITA Publications Committee.

Responsibilities:
1. Is responsible for staying abreast of current and emerging library and information technologies to garner ideas for topical publications.

2. Actively solicits authors.

3. Determines the most suitable publishing format for the content.

4. Works with the Chair of the Publications Committee to coordinate editorial review among committee members, including delivery of manuscripts to individual committee members and determination of deadlines for the editorial review process. Non-committee reviewers may be appointed by the
committee Chair whenever necessary and appropriate.

5. Sets and coordinates schedules with authors and the LITA office.

6. Ensures that at least two publications are produced each year.

7. Evaluates new technologies with a goal of maximizing exposure and distribution of time-sensitive content, and works with the Publications Committee and LITA to implement publishing formats and methodologies that meet the needs of our readership.

Required:
* Must have a publication record or background, which demonstrates excellent writing skills, recognized scholarship in the field and editing experience.

* Must have a broad knowledge of current and emerging information and library technologies.

* Must be skilled in working closely and effectively with authors to turn an idea into a useful technology guide.

* Must attend the LITA Publications Committee meetings at Midwinter and ALA Annual Conferences, and reports on status of and strategies for new publications.

Benefits

Although there is no pay associated with the position, the person will receive a stipend of $1500/year or will be reimbursed for travel and lodging expenses up to $1500/year, and receive free press registration for
attending the ALA Midwinter meeting and Annual Conference.

Scheduled for the second weekend in June (June 10 and 11, 2005) in the city of Sydney on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia, this symposium combines an evening of storytelling with a day of papers about storytelling. We welcome offers to tell, and proposals for papers (or completed papers) on storytelling as an art, or as used in a variety of disciplines and texts. Papers dealing with the theory and criticism of the genre are also welcome. The deadline for submissions is January 31, 2005.

This year's focus is on stories and storytelling as bridges to OTHER worlds. We are looking for stories and papers that explore how storytelling has acted, and continues to act, as a conduit to imagined, magical, and/ or supernatural worlds, beings or states of being. Also of interest are stories and papers that examine the kinds of passageways constructed and their significance.

Send a 250- word or one- page proposal (or a completed paper) for a 20-minute presentation (to a mixed audience of academics, tellers and the general public) either electronically or by mail to:

Lights! Camera! Action! Libraries of all types and sizes and library staff with various backgrounds and expertise are increasingly “on stage” in the age of the Internet, the “information commons,” and 24/7 expectations. Not only are we asked to perform but we must play several different roles simultaneously – in one project, one day, even one interaction with staff or patrons. Library buildings are changing roles as quickly as the staff they house. What are these various roles? How do they overlap? Why are they important? The following aspects of our changing roles offer some inspiration for the thespian in all of us – the one that thrives on lightning-speed costume changes, dynamic stage design, and a challenging script.

Thursday, November 11, 2004

CFP: ACH/ALLC 2005 (17th Joint International Conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC))

University of Victoria, (British Columbia), Canada
June 15-19, 2004
NEW DEADLINE: November 22, 2004 (Deadline for the submission of proposals for papers,
poster presentations, sessions and software demos).

The joint conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC) is the oldest established meeting of scholars working at the intersection of advanced information technologies and the humanities, annually attracting a distinguished international community at the forefront of their fields.

Recent years have seen enormous advances in information technologies, and a corresponding growth in the use of information technology resources for research and teaching in the humanities. How exactly are these developments changing the ways in which humanities scholars work? What are the fields of humanities scholarship that are most affected by the use of computers and computation? What new and distinct methodologies is information technology bringing to the humanities, and how are these methodologies being introduced and applied? How do we expect methodologies, and the role of the humanities scholar, to change in the future as a result of the impact of information technology? How are information technology-related developments in one discipline affecting or likely to affect those in others?

What are the implications of multilingualism and multiculturalism to humanities computing? What is the role of information technology technologies in establishing multilingualism? What are the meanings and implications of these developments for languages, communities, genders and cultures, and humanities research? What is the role of individual scientific and educational tasks, joint projects, or educational and electronic library resources? How can humanities computing help in the challenge to preserve individual cultures in a multicultural environment? What is the role of humanities computing in the preservation and creation of a multilingual, multicultural heritage?

We believe that responding to these new challenges will also have a fertilizing effect on humanities computing as a whole by opening up new ways and methodologies to enhance the use of computers and computation in a wide range of humanities disciplines. Now is the time to survey and assess the impact humanities computing has had and is likely to have on humanities scholarship in a multilingual, multicultural world.

Suitable subjects for proposals might focus on:
-traditional applications of computing in the humanities, including (but not limited to) text encoding, hypertext, text corpora, computational lexicography, natural language processing, linguistics, translation studies, literary studies, text analysis, edition philology and statistical models;
-computational models and applications related to multilingualism and multicultural issues;
-the application of information technology to issues related to minority, indigenous and rare languages;
-emerging digitization efforts: new best practices, experiences, recommendations, training;
-humanities teaching;
-the application of information technology to cultural and historical studies (including archaeology and musicology);
-new approaches to research in humanities disciplines using digital resources dependent on images, audio, or video;
-the application to humanities data of techniques developed in such fields as information science and the physical sciences and engineering;
-pedagogical applications of new media within the humanities;
-applications of technology in second language acquisition;
-commercial applications of humanities computing, e.g. web technology, natural language interfaces, archival organization and accessibility;
-applications in the digital arts, especially projects and installations that feature technical advances of potential interest to humanities scholars;
-information design in the humanities, including visualization, simulation, and modelling;
-thoughtful considerations of the cultural impact of computing and new media;
-theoretical or speculative treatments of new media;
-the institutional role of new media within the contemporary academy, including curriculum development and collegial support for activities in these fields;
-the broader social role of humanities computing and the resources it develops.
the institutional role of humanities computing and new media within the contemporary academy, including curriculum development and collegial support for activities in these fields.

The continuing influence of educational technologies has transcended the pedagogical barriers once attributed to its perceived threat surrounding the demise of the traditional classroom. Within the realm of
Popular/American culture studies the avenues for exploring and examining our shared cultural past utilizing electronic resources is limitless.

Panels are now forming for presentation on the Electronic Classroom and Distributive Education that describes or demonstrate innovative and unique uses of technology in the pedagogical approaches to cultural studies. Panels and papers are welcome.

Topics can include but are not limited to:

- How have educational technologies altered the traditional roles of instructor and student?
- How have educational technologies impacted popular and American cultural studies?
- Has the emphasis for using educational technology resources ignored more traditional pedagogical models of instruction?
- Best practices - Can cultural studies escape the textbook and join the electronic classroom?
- Future trends - Can cultural studies adopt to the evolving 21st electronic classroom?

Panel and paper proposals will be accepted until 1 December 2004. Please include in your submission proposal full contact information including your email address.

HOME: A Visual Studies Conference
Hosted by the Graduate Program in Visual Studies, University of California,
Irvine, March 4-5, 2005.
One page abstracts due: January 15, 2005

After decades of cultural war and political struggle, and in a contemporary situation riven by the aggressive return of the topos ³homeland,² questions of ³home² call urgently for analysis, both in terms of their contemporary centrality and historical provenance.

³HOME: A Visual Studies Conference,² will provide a forum for a critical interrogation of ³home² as concept, ideology, physical structure, and object of representation. Our hope is to bring together scholars from a variety of disciplines to query how ³home² structures public and private processes of meaning formation, self-fashioning, and political contestation.

Panels may move between such diverse topics as Jacques Derrida¹s interrogation of hospitality and the foreigner, Lynn Spigel¹s inquiry into domestic ideology and technology, Griselda Pollock¹s analyses of the
gendered spaces of modernism, Lucy Lippard's work on the ³lure of the local,² and Rafi Segal and Eyal Weizman¹s critique of the politics of Israeli settlement, to name but a few.

We encourage creative and theoretical submissions that investigate ³home² in historical and international contexts as well as domestic, contemporary ones. Through such juxtapositions, we hope to highlight the historical contingency of ³home,² even as we underscore its ubiquity and variegated
universality.

Possible areas of inquiry include, but are not limited to, the following:

Domesticity, Ideology, and/or Technology: Home as ideology or technology in diverse international and historical contexts; the Victorian home and the modern machine home of consumer leisure; domesticity, representation, and the Defense of Marriage Act; House & Home/Home & Garden; Martha Stewart
Living; IKEA; Home Depot; home movies; HBO; the public and private of broadcast media and the internet; virtual communities, both international and local; domesticity, home pages, and internet spaces; home surveillance; McMansions and trailer parks;

Historical and (Inter)National Representations of Home: Representations of domesticity and gender, sexuality, family, and/or communal/political practice in contemporary visual media as well as historical genres; the gendered spaces of modernism; ideology and community in historical and international home architectures and communal spaces; modern domestic design; postmodern representations and conceptions of domesticity;

Home, Hospitality, and the Other: Theorizations of home such as Emmanuel Levinas¹s work on the dwelling or Jacques Derrida¹s work on hospitality and the foreigner; the uncanny; liminality and inside/outside; disciplinarity, ³home departments,² and academia; nationalism; homeland security; citizenship and civic engagement;

Home, Space, Borders, and Populations: Spatial politics; nomadic and transitory cultures and populations; nationalism and globality; national identity and post-coloniality; cosmopolitanism; terrorism and homeland
in/securities; gentrification; town planning; re/settlement; homelessness; migration, deracination, and hybridity; disequilibrium in the ghetto and the planned or gated community.

The deadline for submission of 250-500 word abstracts is January 15, 2005. Please include your name, institutional affiliation, e-mail address, and phone number.

ALCTS Catalog Form & Function Interest Group is calling for speakers for
its discussion meeting at the ALA Midwinter Meeting, Boston, Saturday,
January 15, 2005, 9:30-11:00 AM. Topics should be related to the form or
function of the catalog. Presentations should be approximately 15-20
minutes, with additional time allowed for questions and answers.

Encompassing the broad spectrum from data to knowledge and investigating opportunities and challenges of information science in a networked world, the conference will feature four areas of investigation:

Conference proposal submission: Proposals for CAIS/ACSI 2005 should include a title, be no more than 500 words long, and specify how they relate to one of the areas within the conference program theme. Proposals with a clearly articulated theoretical grounding and methodology, and those that report on completed or ongoing research will be given preference. Diverse perspectives and methodologies are welcome. Proposals may be submitted in English or French. Doctoral candidates are especially invited to submit a proposal for the conference. Highest ranked papers will, with permission of the authors, be published in the Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science / La revue canadienne de l'information and bibliothéconomie with their abstracts appearing in the proceedings.

Panel presentations: The 2005 conference may include panel presentations. If 3 or more presenters wish to form a panel for presentation on a particular topic, please indicate that with your abstract submissions and suggest a title for the panel. Abstracts submitted as part of a panel will be accepted or declined for presentation as a panel. Therefore, individual abstracts within a panel submission would not be considered for individual presentation if a panel presentation is not accepted.

Deadline for proposals is January 17, 2005. Proposals, including the name(s) of the author(s), complete mailing and e-mail addresses, telephone and fax numbers, should be sent electronically in Word, WordPerfect or PDF to: lvaughan@uwo.ca, or in print to:

With the immense use of technology and methods for explaining technical concepts, the election cycle offers fascinating intersections of technical communication and popular culture. Yet, the election cycle is only one of the many areas possible for
analyzing these intersections.

Proposals for papers and panels on the intersection of technical communication and popular culture are welcome in areas such as the following:

--Genres: websites, television, flyers, reports
--Ideology, power, and ethics
--Pedagogical implications: how do we “teach” these new methods and genres?
--Collaboration, structure, and culture: how does the workplace affect these?
--Philosophies and research methods
--Visual theory, design, usability, especially of online environments

Share your ideas and join us for the 26th meeting of the Southwest/Texas Popular and American Culture Associations Conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico. February 9-12, 2005 Hyatt Regency, Albuquerque

Conference Background: Share your knowledge and expertise with colleagues from across the country and around the world at Syllabus2005, next summer in Los Angeles. Our annual five-day conference—which includes a day's visit to the UCLA campus—will feature informative sessions across all technology areas in higher education and will address needs of administrators, IT professionals, faculty, and instructional technology designers. Syllabus2005 will incorporate a wide range of session types, including in-depth skill development workshops, strategic panel discussions, and practical case studies. Breakout sessions will be offered in conference tracks focused on key concerns of higher education technology professionals.

Main Conference Areas (see web page above for more ideas):

-Track 1: High-Tech Tools for Administration (designed for higher education administrators and staff that implement and use administrative tools in their functional areas).

-Track 2: IT and Computing in the Institution (planning and implementation of institution-wide IT systems, along with tools, resources, and strategies for CIOs, IT directors, and other campus IT leaders).

-Track 3: Institutional Strategies – A View for the IT Visionary (especially appropriate for higher ed executive leadership, sessions feature technologies on the horizon, trends, leadership, best practices, and the tools that inform those charged with guiding the future of academic institutions).

-Track 4: Teaching with Technology (this track focuses on delivering education to the student, both on campus and online, and examines technology in classrooms, lecture halls, and labs. Sessions feature examples of the best applications of
technology for instruction and assessment, along with discipline-specific faculty case studies).

-All Tracks: Technologies to Watch—Present & Future (case studies and practical examples highlighting new technologies that will make a difference in the way faculty, staff, and administrators will carry out their roles—-now and in the future).

Info Career Trends, a free, bi-monthly, electronic publication on career development issues for information professionals, is seeking contributors to write short, practical articles for upcoming issues. ICT is distributed via e-mail to over 3300 subscribers, and finds an additional audience on the web and via RSS. For more information or to subscribe, see http://www.lisjobs.com/newsletter/.

Upcoming themes include:

March 2005: Alternative Careers
How can we extend our skills as librarians into other environments? What kind of unusual, interesting, or unthought-of careers are open to information professionals? How do we convince those in related fields to
give us a chance?

May 2005: Charting Our Path
Some of us tend to float from one job to another, depending on factors as varied geographical convenience, salary, or luck of the draw. Others chart a more intentional career path, deliberately moving up the ladder
or gaining experience in a variety of settings. How do we move our careers forward; where do we go from here?

July 2005: Getting What You're Worth
Topics here range from advocating for better salaries and pay equity, to earning your own tenure or promotion, to successfully arguing for a raise, to moving to another institution to secure better salary,
benefits, or work/life balance.

The deadline for articles is generally the first Friday of the month before an issue appears, but please do query now so I can ensure that your proposed topic fits the theme and with the other articles in that issue. Send queries (outlining what you intend to write about and why you're a good person to do so) via e-mail to: editor@lisjobs.com.

NOTE: Given the number of books published and to be published on this topic, it may be a good discussion for librarians at both public and academic libraries

Call for Reviews - Iraq War Culture
Bad Subjects
Deadline: Open
Bad Subjects is issuing an open call for review essays of 1000-3000 words dealing with the cultural landscape created by the Iraq War. We are interested in essays that examine cultural products (art, film/video, photography, writing, music, theater, dance, software) or public-sphere phenomena (protests, political events, media coverage, educational projects, public reports, law) that respond to the war and its social environment.

This review essay series will be especially concerned to address issues created by the ideologies of the American Empire and 'democratic imperialism'; permanent military mobilization and domestic security watches; diminution of civil liberties and human rights; religious triumphalism and its relations with state violence; and the deepening of economic inequalities and poverty under global capitalism. How are such issues reflected in Iraq War culture and challenged through cultural critique? The editors will be interested equally in essays that review resistant cultural or political responses to Iraq War culture.

Bad Subjects is a heterodox progressive journal publishing on 'the politics of everyday life.' It currently serves approximately 5000 readers daily from the English Server at Iowa State University and is the oldest cultural studies publication on the Internet. The journal is located at the web address shown below.

This is currently an open-deadline call. Submit review essays as Word attachments to Joe Lockard (English Department, Arizona State University) to the e-mail address given below.

I am looking for articles related to the mission statement and coverage listed below for the next journal issue. OCLC Systems & Services: International Digital Library Perspectives is a peer-reviewed journal, with an international editorial board. Please send all inquiries, expressions of interest, and/or articles directly to the editor. Thanks.

IMB is an international conference that is scheduled to be held annually in different countries under the collaboration of Shih-Chien University, Taiwan (2005), University of Western Sydney, Australia (2006), Fachhochschule Wurzburg-Schweinfurt, Germany (2007), South Carelia Polytechnic, Finland, and their local academic or industrial societies. The goal of IMB is to provide a stimulating forum to bring together researchers and professionals from both academic and industry to share ideas, exchange knowledge, consider new advanced applications and discuss future directions on information management and business related issues.

The 1st conference will be held in Taipei, which is a city of multiple amenities combining occupational, residential, academic and leisure functions of Taiwan. IMB provides an excellent opportunity for you to present your work at IMB2005 conference and define the future of information management and its business applications. The conference organizers are committed to building on the envisaged success of this conference and increasing its influence on the business information systems and management community internationally. The conference will have sessions with contributed papers, invited talks, panel discussions, and vendor exhibitions.

Applications for presenting poster sessions for both US and International participants at the 2005 American Library Association Annual Conference in Chicago are now being accepted. An application form is available on the poster session website at http://www.lib.iastate.edu/ala. The website also provides rules and guidelines for presenting poster sessions, helpful hints in applying, subject categories for sessions, frequently asked questions, and photos of sample poster sessions.

The deadline for submitting an application is January 31, 2005. Applicants will be notified by March 31, 2005 whether their poster sessions have been accepted for presentation at the conference. Poster sessions will be presented on June 25, 26, and 27 at the Chicago conference.

Please contact Jody Condit Fagan, Chair of the ALA Poster Session Review Panel, with any questions. Her email address is faganjc@jmu.edu and her phone number is 1-540-568-4265.

In 2004, the Conference explored the issues of value, usefulness and performance of our organizations. The primary objective that emerged following this exploration was the enhancement of libraries and information professionals in their respective areas of endeavour. The continuity of thought advanced by the Corporation embraces this perspective, while taking into consideration, in 2005, the World Summit on the Information Society and Montreal: World Book Capital 2005. These major events provide librarians with just as many opportunities of emerging from obscurity and taking their place in the limelight.

The time has come to test our powers of seduction. It has become imperative to develop the skills required to show ourselves off to best advantage and to adopt strategies aimed at making ourselves attractive to our clientele. These preliminary steps are essential in fostering user loyalty. Beyond our often community-oriented mission, in addition to the part we play in spreading knowledge, and without falling
into the trap of shameless mercantilism, we owe it to ourselves to explore new marketing and communications techniques that have been tested and adapted to our different fields of activity. Everything resides in the power of attraction. What exactly does the concept of seduction represent for information professionals? Until now, they have often been reproached their passivity and their lack of visibility and commitment. Yet, there are many professionals who dare to stray from the stereotype and create for themselves a dynamic and daring image that appeals to users and decision-makers. What is their secret? Should not information circles adapt to new trends and flaunt their appeal? Should not the documentary training of recent graduates reflect this new reality? The organizing committee is therefore calling for suggestions for workshops, presentations alternating theory and practice, from guest speakers that will touch on the following subjects:

Marketing and Clienteles
Knowledge Management
Continuing Education and Training
Nurmerical Age
Librarian and the profession

The technological revolution has produced an explosion of new hardware, software and sensory modalities that open doors of accessibility for all kinds of users. The Canadian Disability Studies Association and the Consortium for Computers in the Humanities/Le Consortium pour ordinateurs en sciences humaines (COCH/COSH) welcome papers that deal with accessibility issues, including alternative and inclusive technologies, interfaces, and pedagogies for the differently abled. We are interested in discussions centred on electronic assistive technologies as tools and media for the humanities. Software or hardware demonstrations are welcome, but only as a part of an inquiry into the larger issues as they affect access in the arts,
social sciences and education. Possible topics might include:

The Canadian Disability Studies Association is a Canada-wide organization concerned with the intersections with (and within) disability and disability studies, including disability and medicine; social policy and disability; disability history; the immigrant experience and disability; law and disability; disability and queerness; disability and culture; disability in literature; feminism and disability; ethics and disability, disability and pedagogy; and disability and personal/private space.

The Consortium for Computers in the Humanities/Le Consortium pour ordinateurs en sciences humaines is a Canada-wide association of representatives from Canadian colleges and universities that began in 1986. Our objective is to foster communications about, and sharing of, information technology developed by Canadian institutions for the betterment of post-secondary education across Canada. COCH/COSH participates in the Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of Canada¹s (HSSFC) annual Congress to promote humanities computing research and scholarship in Canada and internationally. Our theme for the 2005 Congress will be "The Networked Citizen: New Contributions of the Digital Humanities," and will place special emphasis on connections between humanities computing and other fields. It will take place at the University of Western Ontario from May 29-31, 2005.

Paper and/or session proposals will be accepted in English or French until December 15, 2004. Please note that all presenters must be members of COCH/COSH at the time of the conference.

Abstracts/proposals should include the following information at the top: title of paper, author's name(s); complete mailing address, including email; institutional affiliation and rank, if any, of the author; statement of need for audio-visual equipment. Abstracts of papers should be between 150 and 300 words long, and clearly indicate the paper's thesis, methodology and major focus. Be sure to mark your submission as being for the ŒEnabling Technologies¹ Panel.

Single-paper proposals will be accepted electronically via the conference